True Self

After Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, she turned into an overnight sensation. People wanted to know who she was and how she'd achieved so much while so young. Zaila shares about her family, her accomplishments, her experience of being homeschooled, and so much more in order to motivate and uplift other kids who have small-, medium-, and even big-sized dreams.

Today's children and teens are growing up more anxious, depressed, and fearful than previous generations. But if we help this generation, often called "Gen Z", to discover true God-confidence, instead of chasing the illusive self-confidence, we can empower them to embrace their uniqueness and find their purpose, passion, and peace as they grow into humble, compassionate, and resilient young people. Cyndie Claypool de Neve, an associate marriage and family therapist, shares her personal journey from feeling anxious and suicidal to learning God-confidence.

Drawing from his own experience leading worship in a large congregation and feeling the pull of performance, Manuel Luz guides us on a journey through worship that takes us far beyond style and deep into our own souls. He calls us back to an honest worship that moves past facades and pulls us inward toward the true self God is forming within each of us.

Our modern scientific studies contend that we are all incorrigible seekers of bliss or joy. Our minds are wired to be happy. Yet most of us struggle most of the time to be and stay happy. What has gone wrong? According to the author, it is because most of us have not recognized the nature of our true self. We know and recognize our physical self, but it is our informational self that one needs to be familiar with. Knowing its true nature and acting accordingly is the key to achieve good emotional health.

“All of this pain has a purpose”, six-year-old Harmony heard from deep within as she practiced transcendental meditation for the first time. Feeling relieved by these words of hope, she knew instantly that she wanted to learn how to bring this message to life. With progressive healers as parents, Harmony was nurtured to be a healer herself. However, the painful secrets hidden beneath the façade of having well-loved healers as parents kept Harmony locked in a pattern of wounding and suffering.

One day, on a remote island, Katrina Bos found herself faced with having to literally eat eyeballs.... When she told her friends later about it, they asked her why she did it - why didn’t she just say “no”? Well, because she had never considered that she could. She was a long-time people-pleaser who almost never considered her own desires, preferences, or comfort if it meant possibly disappointing someone else.

Authentic Hearts offers insightful teachings that help YOU become your most authentic self and build healthy relationships. Lohan Bruguera offers straightforward guidance, and firsthand experience, about clearing the space between two people, to heal the emotional reactivity, resentment, and pain. In other words, we must create a space that fosters LOVE, connection, and true healing. All we need is perspective. It gives us a new way to process our connection to others.

How can we evolve through adversity and change our lives? It is one of life's great questions. In Evolving Through Adversity: How to Overcome Obstacles, Discover Your Passion, and Honor Your True Self, author Seconde Nimenya answers the above question and demonstrates that the best way to overcome adversity is to go through it. Through her own life story, Seconde explains how to apply this theory by what she calls the RRU (reflect, rectify, and unite) model.

In Enjoy the Ride, author Steve Gilliland shares from his heart How to Experience the True Joy of Life. A popular national speaker, Steve has changed the lives of thousands who have heard him. Translated to book form, his philosophy centers on the simple premise that true success is not a thing you acquire or achieve. Rather, it is a journey you take your whole life long. Beginning with the compelling challenge to "Check Your Passion", Steve ignites people's ability to choose what they do, why they do it, and who they do it with.

We don’t typically think of experiences like illness, death, betrayal, job loss, burnout, or accidents as the doorway to a more fulfilling and beautiful life. Yet, if you know how to look at these challenges in a different light, they can be powerful opportunities to turn your life around—in small and large ways.

Many have been through moments when their self-esteem was crushed. Yet, they coped and survived in a world of competitiveness, bullying, discrimination, imposter syndrome, and peer pressure. With social media in the mix, there is more pressure to do more and be more. Through exclusive interviews with psychology experts, executive coaches, professors, and the latest research, this audiobook shares how our hypercompetitive society affects us and how we can make the choice to rise above the not-good-enough feelings and align with our true selves.

Discover a treasure trove of astonishing true stories about money in "Amazing Money Stories: True Tales of Greed, Generosity, Success & Luck" by Peter Waitzman. This captivating collection unveils the incredible ways people have amassed fortunes, realized their wildest dreams, pulled off audacious scams, and uncovered mind-boggling facts about wealth. From the tale of a Welsh man's $300 million Bitcoin fortune buried in a landfill to the street artist who made millions selling paintings for pocket change, these stories will leave you amazed and inspired.

From Doubt to Discovery and Discovery to Love: There is a way to become who you were always meant to be. Find your true self, love you, and become the best YOU possible!

With a subtle eye, we can see that this physical world is an undulating ocean of consciousness, of light masquerading as matter. The Sacred Hub is an inspiring guide that will help you purify your subtle vision so that you can venture beneath the conditioned mind to awareness itself - into the sacred hub within your own heart. It is in this billowing awareness where you will find your own truth, your own authentic expression, and the freedom and enduring happiness of your own innermost being.

True has a singular path: to be the greatest soccer player of her generation. And she will do whatever it takes to be the top girl on the field. True has to stay focused because her family is crumbling. With the loss of her mother, True is forced to take care of her autistic younger sister while her grieving father wastes his time gambling. And high school isn’t much better. While True’s teammates are getting taller and growing up, she’s hardening around the edges, at a loss for what it means to be a typical teen girl. But when she’s in the game, the anxieties of family and fitting in just fade away.

Ready for some GOOD news? Or wanna just laugh and scratch your head a little? As a podcaster and media personality, Joshua P. Warren asked everyone, around the world, to send him true stories.

What if you were kidnapped, tied to a wall for a month, starved, humiliated, tortured and then they tried to murder you, but you survived? What stories would you tell of how you were able to survive and the struggles you went though? What if you went to the police and they did not believe you? What would you do to evade those trying to kill you and how would you bring the criminals to justice before they struck again? How would that change your life and the way you perceived the world and people?

If you can't bear to watch the news lately, you're not alone. Luckily, Ione Butler is here to offer you some respite. As the founder of Uplifting Content, a social media platform followed by more than 1.5 million people, she understands the power of inspirational true stories - the kind we don't see covered enough these days. Here, she presents an eclectic group of narratives - some from people she's met in her own travels; others crowdsourced from the uplifting content community or taken from the headlines.

Dear person, I may not know your name. We might not have walked past each other on the streets, and it is highly likely that we may never come in contact with each other, but I just want to ask you one question, take a few seconds to search yourself for the answer. The question is: How happy are you in your body?

"Ваше истинное Я. Как принять себя и стать счастливым"—это исследование, которое перевернет ваш взгляд на самого себя и путь к собственному счастью. Эта книга предлагает вам ключи к открытию вашего истинного потенциала и внутреннего спокойствия.